MEI System
Luca Russano has extensive work experience in various roles and industries. Luca worked at MEI as the Chief Technology Officer starting in 2023. Prior to that, they were the R&D SW Ultrasound Director at Esaote from 2016 to 2023, where they led the software R&D department for medical equipment. Luca also held the position of Business Development Manager at SM optics from 2015 to 2016. At Alcatel-Lucent, they served as the Network Validation Manager from 2012 to 2015 and as the SW Lab Manager from 2006 to 2013. Before that, Luca worked as the R&D manager at Spazio ZeroUno from 2004 to 2006. Luca started their career at LABEN as a SW Engineer from 1990 to 1995 and then served as the OTS Technical Project Leader at Nokia Siemens Networks from 1997 to 2000. From 2002 to 2004, Luca was the Manager of Manager Validation Manager at H3G. Overall, they have a strong background in technology management and software development.
Luca Russano attended Università degli Studi di Milano from 1985 to 1990, where they earned a degree in Computer Science. In addition to their formal education, Luca has obtained several certifications. In August 2019, they completed the Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Thinking Machines course at LinkedIn. Luca also completed the Ken Blanchard on Servant Leadership course, as well as the Scrum: Advanced and Scrum: The Basics courses, all also at LinkedIn, in the same month and year.
MEI System
MEI leads the global market of edging machines for eyeglasses lenses. Since its foundation, in the early nineties, the company has been driven by passion for innovation and dedication to the customer’s needs. MEI has distinguished itself designing and manufacturing visionary equipment for the lens edging process, whose robustness, reliability and flexibility has no comparison with any other available product. The “thinking out of the box” inclination of the company, brought in the dry cut technology, which is used in all MEI edging machines, with many advantages over the old-fashioned grinding method. The dry cut technology has made the dream of the blockless edging a reality, giving the company the opportunity to become the leading manufacturer in its filed and the key supplier of edging machines for large lens corporations as well as for independent labs of any size all over the world. Driven by its mindful attention to the customer’s needs, today MEI offers a broad range of edgers of different size, different loading systems and different throughput, suitable for any kind of customer, from the optical shop up to the big fully automatic industrial labs. The edgers are completely manufactured in Italy. At MEI’s headquarters, very close to Milan, a team driven by passion of highly dedicated engineers, skilled technicians and service personnel, designs, produces and qualifies the machines, and provides life-long support to the customers for maximum usage of the products. Beginning in 2007 the MEI service team has expanded its presence outside Italy to maximize the effectiveness of the technical support provided to the customers. MEI offices with service personnel for help desk and field activity, fully stocked with spare parts and equipped with demo machines are operational is several parts of the world. In the USA MEI is present in Chicago IL and in Los Angeles CA, in Asia is present in Hong Kong, and for South America is in Sao Paulo Brazil.